Potato & Acorn Mash Gratin

Ingredients:
two pounds potatoes, peeled in addition to thinly sliced
1 1/4 pound acorn squash, peeled, halved in addition to thinly sliced
1 clove garlic, thinly sliced
1 pocket-size onion, halved in addition to thinly sliced
3/4 loving cup shredded extra abrupt cheddar (divided use)
two 1/2 cups milk (I used 2%)
1/2 loving cup sour cream (light is okay)
1/4 teaspoon the world nutmeg
body of body of water salt
freshly the world dark pepper

Preheat oven to 400. Grease or spray amongst cooking spray a two quart baking dish. Whisk together the milk in addition to sour cream. Bring milk mixture, spices in addition to garlic to a simmer inwards a large, high-walled skillet (I used a 14-inch shape Fe skillet). Add potatoes, onion  and crush locomote on to simmer, stirring occasionally, until potatoes in addition to crush are fork tender, about xx minutes. Remove one-half of the squash, murphy in addition to onion in addition to suit inwards the baking dish (I used my spider to withdraw the vegetables but a slotted spoon would do). Sprinkle amongst one-half of the cheese. Top amongst remaining potatoes, onion in addition to squash. Add virtually 1 loving cup of the milk mixture to the baking dish (you should last able to run into it but the vegetables should non last fully submerged). Sprinkle amongst the remaining cheese in addition to bake 30-40 minutes or until hot in addition to bubbly. All to sit down 5-10 minutes prior to serving.

Note: You could (carefully!) utilisation a mandoline to spell the potatoes in addition to crush if you lot want. I simply used a actually abrupt knife in addition to aimed for slices betwixt 1/8 in addition to 1/4 inch thick. I floated the slices inwards a bowl total of H2O until I was educate to add together them to the milk mixture.

My thoughts:

This is a lightened up, squash-added twist on the classic French casserole potatoes Dauphinoise. November is the fourth dimension for murphy casseroles if in that place e'er was 1 in addition to I dearest cheesy potatoes but never, e'er brand them because they are fourth dimension consuming in addition to heavy in addition to afterward all that, I all the same bring to brand a vegetable. Not my bag. So this twelvemonth I was thinking of how I tin brand my cheesy dreams come upwardly truthful amongst minimal endeavour + maximum results. Adding wintertime crush was a no brainer because it tin roughly last treated the same every bit potatoes (both dense, form of starchy, like cooking times) in addition to it would eliminate my involve to for separate vegetable*. I turned to the French for the technique in addition to spirit but I used decidedly non-French extra, extra abrupt cheddar every bit the cheese because I dearest it so. I intend a skillful Gruyère would operate actually good too. You involve an assertive cheese or the whole affair comes out sort of bland in addition to sad.  Normally these sort of dishes are made amongst heavy cream which I never bring on mitt except when making H2O ice cream in addition to then I subbed inwards my green milk in addition to sour cream in addition to loved the results. Not every bit over-the-top rich but all the same creamy in addition to amongst a sublte tang. The onions were my catch too, I dearest onions amongst potatoes in addition to the boiling makes them mild in addition to tender, perfect for this sort of comfort food. The simmering inwards milk footstep seems fussy but it ensures perfectly cooked, tender murphy in addition to squash. Plus when you lot add together some of the liquid dorsum inwards the baking dish, it is already infused amongst flavor.



*I simply made this on a random Th dark but I intend they would last in addition to then awesome served on Thanksgiving. You tin fifty-fifty bake them ahead of fourth dimension in addition to simply reheat them correct earlier dinner.